If I hadn't decided to be a fashion designer, I would have loved to be a Broadway showgirl or a Rockette!

I want women to choose something that makes them feel empowered and fantastic and admired by many people.

When you do something that you like, and you think you can keep doing it, you don't think about retiring.

If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.

I am confident and I work so hard to be confident. If I wasn't talented, then I wouldn't be as confident.

Caring about beauty, it is necessary to start with the heart and soul, otherwise no makeup will not help.

If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.

Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.

If I weren’t doing what I’m doing today... I’d be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.

I believe in comfort. If you don't feel comfortable in your clothes, it's hard to think of anything else.

If I weren't doing what I'm doing today... I'd be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.

Cheap jewelery should never be worn unless it happens to be something that you positively know suits you.

The Indians have such strong traditions and aesthetics, and the people are beautiful, as are their goods.

With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves.

I respect men and women who age and are proud and don't lose energy. I think fashion forgot those people.

I see a lot of young guys going back to the suit, but they're doing it in a way that's less of a uniform.

What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.

Guys are leery about putting on something they don't think is them. They have a fixed idea of themselves.

Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.

There's a spirit of Latina women in all of my work, in the love of the body and the strong sense of self.

I am naturally a thin person and I am 5'1" and putting on five or 10 pounds, that looks like a lot on me.

Only in Paris do couture workers, from seamstress to mannequin, worship a dress and treat it like a baby.

I'm shy, but not on a one-to-one basis. Over the years, I have become acclimatised to a bit of publicity.

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.

I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have nothing to wear.

I'm not sure that being a man in the fashion industry has any advantage over being a woman. Why would it?

Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them.

Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.

My first conversation of the day is with my daughter, Nathalie. I call her every morning; it is a ritual.

It's really never fair to judge people because none of us know what's going on inside anyone else's head.

I couldn't have cared less about Gucci when I first went there - but soon after I arrived, I cared a lot.

I wanted stores that would feel like a comfortable room in my apartment, cozy and colorful and different.

Shoes are the finishing touch on any outfit and it is important to complete a look with the perfect pair!

I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.

The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.

I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties.

Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.

Glamour can be something very simple. Glamour can be how you wash your face, how you make your breakfast.

It's a real luxury to have a studio all to myself, somewhere to start mood boards for the next collection.

For me black is not dark, it's poetic. I don't think of gothic I think of classic - it's a big difference.

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

For me, I am still very happy to be able to do stage design as it's an opportunity to express the extreme.

Perhaps I shouldn't have been influenced by the idea that my name could be spread across the entire world.

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

I travel light. I think the most important thing is to be in a good mood and enjoy life, wherever you are.

The three biggest fashion mistakes are cheap suits, shoes, and shirts. Spend your money on something good.

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